Age Quote by William Saroyan

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble…

— Roxane Gay

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic…

— Hari Kunzru

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in the words…

— Jeremy Limn

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…

— Harry Mathews

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich